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Optimistic outlook without reasonable skepticism is probably at least something you should not strive to achieve.

HN discussion did not particlarly have "reasonable skepticism". This is probably because people (i) were not aware that there had been many other hypes about RTSC before but less p…

Wikipedia seems to be a good first stop here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult and contains several other useful references for entering the rabbit hole of what these cults…

The wag who dubbed various false alarms of room temperature superconductivity in the 1990s as USOs (Unidentified Superconducting Objects) got it quite right. First there is the con…

Another comment from a well informed source on the topic: https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1684255515944034304 Also, on the sentences in the manuscripts trying to explain th…

Get a headset that has Faststream or bidirectional APTX-LL A2DP vendor codec, and use it with BT stack that implements these codecs (e.g. Linux/Pipewire). Such devices are very har…

There are vendor A2DP codecs that support duplex audio (faststream; aptx-ll optionally) but very few devices implement them. Software support is also fairly bad, although on Linux …